c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!" — Greg Anderson
"I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas." — Burt Ward
"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future." — Jessamyn West
"The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love." — Bradley Chicho
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it." — Aristotle
"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way." — Jesse Ventura
"I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera." — Thomas Jane
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long." — Marie Antoinette
"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale." — Zig Ziglar
"Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today." — Jared Polis
"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not." — Zoe Saldana
"Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology." — Kevin Rollins
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." — Denis Waitley
"If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it." — Gary Ross
"Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore." — Sarah McLachlan
"My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it." — Hillary Clinton
"I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market." — Monique Lhuillier
"I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice." — Willow Shields
"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children." — Billy Graham
"People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point." — Laura Linney
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." — Brooke Shields
"Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice." — Arthur Henderson
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination." — Arthur Conan Doyle
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." — Frank Sinatra
"The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom." — Shimon Peres
"Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that." — Donna Brazile
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life." — Plato
"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement." — Brandi Chastain
"You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost." — Andrew Bird
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." — Joseph Stalin
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity." — Charles Ives
"I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967." — Alan Dershowitz
"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." — Norman Vincent Peale
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." — Juvenal
"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany." — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home." — Reba McEntire
"Honesty is the best policy." — Benjamin Franklin
"I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started." — Gary Numan
"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy." — Marie Curie
"The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'" — Jeff Bezos
"Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny." — Donna Rice
"There is a role and function for beauty in our time." — Tadao Ando
"I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned." — Sylvester Stallone
"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans." — Michael Chertoff
"We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one." — Ian Williams
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." — Henry Ward Beecher
"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now." — James A. Baldwin
"Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth." — Benjamin Tucker
"I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence." — Daymond John
"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally." — David Rockefeller
"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out." — Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer." — David Mamet
"It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny." — Chris Pratt
"I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five." — Akhmad Kadyrov
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people." — Kelly Osbourne
"I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love." — Tatum O'Neal
"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die." — Guru Nanak
"I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily." — Lil' Kim
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes." — Robert Kennedy
"A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time." — Annie Dillard
"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture." — Albert J. Nock
"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace." — King Hussein I
"There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect." — Walter Hagen
"I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements." — Vanessa Carlton
"I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death." — Elton John
"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them." — Gertrude Stein
"The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength." — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." — Babe Ruth
"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings." — Hector Berlioz
"Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility." — Tammy Bruce
"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society." — Herbert Read
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." — E. M. Forster
"I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age." — Rosanna Arquette
"Teaching is the royal road to learning." — Jessamyn West
"When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad." — Fantasia Barrino
"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas." — Joan Armatrading
"All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!" — Frances O'Grady
"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet." — Julie Bishop
"None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did." — Dan Stevens
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us." — George Eliot
"Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with." — Adam Ant
"I think having children is the most amazing thing." — Rachel Stevens
"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command." — Mary Douglas
"It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment." — Jasmine Guy
"I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could." — Jordin Sparks
"There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now." — Joe Nichols
"Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change." — Peace Pilgrim
"High-quality food is better for your health." — Michael Pollan
"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future." — Leonard Bernstein
"When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example." — Big Sean
"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it." — James D'arcy
"The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way." — James Montgomery
"Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too." — Yannick Noah
"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line." — Richard Branson
"I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet." — Joel Robuchon
"You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous." — Adriana Lima
"In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride." — Jonathan Sacks
"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings." — Stevie Nicks
"I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle." — Maria Mitchell
"My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine." — Lena Dunham
"True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is." — Norman Schwarzkopf
"It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time." — Nicole Sullivan
"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born." — Charlie Chaplin
"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death." — Daniel Boone
"Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics." — Sebastian Vettel
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look." — Francis of Assisi
"From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains." — Francois Rabelais
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." — Groucho Marx
"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication." — Kevin J. Anderson
"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath." — Arnold H. Glasow
"And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives." — Duane G. Carey
"I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across." — Clive Owen
"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak." — Augustus Hare
"I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror." — Sid Vicious
"A heart makes a good home for the friend." — Yunus Emre
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex." — Hugh Hefner
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect." — John Ruskin
"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true." — Swami Vivekananda
"We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence." — Bob Graham
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." — Ray Bradbury
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." — Louis D. Brandeis
"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people." — Matthew Fox
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery." — Horace Mann
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons." — Marie Curie
"Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent." — Mitt Romney
"What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager." — Barry McGuigan
"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits." — Theodore Roosevelt
"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity." — Camille Paglia
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society." — Henrik Ibsen
"I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party." — Matthew Sweet
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth." — Charles Kingsley
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." — Wayne Dyer
"Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates." — Samuel Wilson
"When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so." — Beverly Cleary
"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable." — Havelock Ellis
"A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy." — Suze Orman
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life." — Christopher Lasch
"When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that." — Sebastian Vettel
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security." — William F. Buckley, Jr.
"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles." — Zig Ziglar
"It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time." — Willie Nelson
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity." — Mortimer Adler
"I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music." — Joan Jett
"The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world." — Noam Chomsky
"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed." — William Cowper
"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations." — Salman Rushdie
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." — Rabindranath Tagore
"All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you." — Christopher McCandless
"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it." — Eminem
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law." — Jeremy Bentham
"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today." — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all." — Alan Shepard
"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year." — Georg Brandes
"In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them." — George Mikes
"Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world." — Lawrence G. Lovasik
"I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from." — Mary Steenburgen
"My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun." — Wiz Khalifa
"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits." — Gro Harlem Brundtland
"When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work." — Erykah Badu
"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence." — Louis Althusser
"But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes." — Cindy Crawford
"So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics." — Steve Case
"The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history." — Nancy Pelosi
"Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago." — Tony Visconti
"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways." — Clarence Day
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." — Dwight L. Moody
"I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures." — John Carpenter
"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States." — Jonathan Kozol
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." — Russell Baker
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have." — Winston Churchill
"If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life." — Helen Hunt Jackson
"There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed." — Benjamin Netanyahu
"There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'" — Hulk Hogan
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." — Mario Andretti
"When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!" — Calvin Klein
"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion." — Kim Cattrall
"Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things." — Lauren Ambrose
"These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends." — Ang Lee
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." — Moliere
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity." — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for." — Joichi Ito
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." — Havelock Ellis
"Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit." — Paul Westerberg
"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it." — Natalie Portman
"Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected." — Christina Milian
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself." — Leonard Cohen
"What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it." — Kyle Chandler
"Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking." — Jeff Goodell
"You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do." — Tony Kushner
"Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing." — Alex Pettyfer
"Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself." — Annie Leibovitz
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." — Bob Feller
"One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real." — Brandy Norwood
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed." — Theodor Herzl
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." — Billy Graham
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." — Khalil Gibran
"Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing." — Orson Scott Card
"Intelligence is enormously sexy." — Frank Langella
"Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace." — Arthur Henderson
"I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent." — Marc Jacobs
"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process." — Jesse James Garrett
"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." — Steve Jobs
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." — Judy Garland
"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction." — Graham Greene
"I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women." — Annie Lennox
"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge." — David Hume
"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me." — Rodney Dangerfield
"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system." — Talcott Parsons
"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly." — Jim Elliot
"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray." — John Calvin
"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you." — Les Brown
"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant." — Washington Irving
"Art is the objectification of feeling." — Herman Melville
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful." — Albert Camus
"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries." — Bill Cosby
"America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society." — Peter Kropotkin
"Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements." — Robert Pozen
"Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business." — Ginnifer Goodwin
"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!" — Robert Musil
"I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up." — Sophie Ellis-Bextor
"There is still a future with music, because people want music." — Maynard James Keenan
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." — C. S. Lewis
"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward." — Al Gore
"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding." — Jennifer Hudson
"The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration." — Lindsey Graham
"There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names." — Charles Barkley
"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should." — Mike Tyson
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." — Lord Acton
"The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms." — Cat Cora
"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed." — Simon Newcomb
"The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff." — Roberto Cavalli
"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent." — Nolan Ryan
"Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it." — Alanis Morissette
"The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture." — Brian Eno
"The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made." — Matt Lucas
"The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal." — Kurt Vonnegut
"My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend." — Tiger Woods
"It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel." — Doris Lessing
"I believe in traditional marriage." — Karl Rove
"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death." — Henry Miller
"The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free." — Henry David Thoreau
"My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me." — Nana Mouskouri
"A good teacher is a determined person." — Gilbert Highet
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." — Paramahansa Yogananda
"Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power." — Jerry Saltz
"I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding." — Marlen Esparza
"Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family." — Trey Anastasio
"I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week." — Marlon Wayans
"I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief." — Jesse Ventura
"Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports." — Lois McMaster Bujold
"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him." — Anna Julia Cooper
"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." — Katharine Hepburn
"Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion." — Josh McDowell
"My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance." — Francois Hollande
"Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically." — Dave Barry
"A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him." — Arthur Symons
"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it." — Al Lopez
"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs." — Will Rogers
"I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on." — Guy Laliberte
"This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about." — Adolf Galland
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet." — William Blake
"What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?" — George Carlin
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds." — Tadao Ando
"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images." — James Broughton
"My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me." — Anthony Hopkins
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." — Thomas Carlyle
"You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people." — Zig Ziglar
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." — Maya Angelou
"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money." — Imran Khan
"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops." — Chubby Checker
"I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough." — John Cusack
"Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men." — Karen Horney
"I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work." — Bob Dylan
"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace." — Margaret Mitchell
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." — James Truslow Adams
"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday." — John Clayton
"Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves." — Brian Austin Green
"The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries." — Natan Sharansky
"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that." — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"Our dog died from licking our wedding picture." — Phyllis Diller
"We fear the thing we want the most." — Robert Anthony
"You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room." — Jennifer Lopez
"Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well." — Jamie Redknapp
"I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol." — Dee Dee Ramone
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic." — Bertrand Russell
"If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land." — Mencius
"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." — Pat Robertson
"I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state." — Gray Davis
"Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise." — Brock Yates
"In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy." — Lance Bass
"We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country." — Charles Foster Bass
"I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it." — Jane Campion
"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions." — James Freeman Clarke
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization." — Naguib Mahfouz
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes." — Michael Ondaatje
"When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web." — Tom Brady
"I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through." — Robert Carlyle
"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality." — Jonas Salk
"While there's life, there's hope." — Marcus Tullius Cicero